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Fateful Showdown

· Instant · Kaladesh (KLD)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

Decks Running

In Decks

185

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Fateful Showdown

Instant

Fateful Showdown deals damage to any target equal to the number of cards in your hand. Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards.

Kaladesh (KLD) · Rare · Illustrated by Chris Rallis

Final zone distribution

34 instances

Not enough tracked games yet to show a reliable final-zone breakdown.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 14 decks
2 The Locust God 7 decks
3 Rielle, the Everwise 3 decks
4 Brallin, Skyshark Rider 2 decks
5 Niv-Mizzet, Parun 2 decks
6 Admiral Beckett Brass 1 decks
7 Arjun, the Shifting Flame 1 decks
8 Astonishing Spider-Man 1 decks
9 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 1 decks
10 Flamewar, Brash Veteran // Flamewar, Streetwise Operative 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

80 brought · 36 players

Brought to game

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.